As a non-developer(just someone who follows the project and pokes the code here and there):<br>I've responded as shown below[1]. In the future if you have questions like this, I would suggest you look at the mail archives. This question can be found by looking through those(also, don't be afraid to go look through the commit history on github or do a diff of the two versions yourself). Here is an email from yesterday[2] that can also point you in the right direction. And a link with info[3].<br>
Please feel free to look at things yourself to answer your own questions Obviously no one is happy that the upgrades happened so often, but there isn't much anyone can do about it at this point.<br>All of this was found with no special knowledge from myself, other than Google and looking at the mailing list archives.<br>
Mie<br>
<br>[1]<br>From an outsider that watches Owncloud:<br>Generally there is a decent amount of time between releases. Major version(the x in x.y.z) is for big changes or many updates, y is for medium updates(usually just security updates or very stable updates) and z is for small fixes(often showstopper bugs).<br>
Owncloud was hit with some pretty nasty/showstopper bugs, that needed to be resolved quickly. While it stinks that the updates had to happen like this, there wasn't much choice. Hopefully in the future this won't happen - I'm sure there is and will be discussion on the topic to stop issues like this from happening again.<br>
<br>[2]<br>Hi everybody,<br>
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just a brief heads up for everybody.<br>
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As you know we released 5.0.2 today. Unfortunately this introduced a nasty upgrade bug:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/2642" target="_blank">https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/2642</a><br>
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I created a RC1 that can be used for testing with this bug fixed.<br>
<a href="http://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-5.0.3.RC1.tar.bz2" target="_blank">download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-5.0.3.RC1.tar.bz2</a><br>
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There is one more bug that has to be fixed for the next release. Volunteers welcome.<br>
<a href="https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/2654" target="_blank">https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/2654</a><br>
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If everything goes right we plan to release 5.0.3 tomorrow noon.<br>
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Thanks to everyone for the understanding and sorry for the trouble.<br>
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Frank<br><br>[3]<br><a href="http://owncloud.org/changelog/">http://owncloud.org/changelog/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Doc Long <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farsons2003@yahoo.com" target="_blank">farsons2003@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><h2><a href="http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10113" target="_blank">Owncloud Version Policy</a></h2><div>Could any of the Dev be so kind to make a statement egarding the following:</div>
<div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><a href="http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10113" target="_blank">http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10113</a></div>
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